Question: My Take on Container Gardening Trends
People often ask me what I think are the trends in container gardening. I have no crystal ball, but here is my own highly subjective list of container gardening trends.
Answer: Trends in container gardening:
- Growing edibles in container gardens
- Low water, or self-watering container gardens
- Mixing annuals and perennials
- Growing from seed
- Great, eye-popping color combinations
- Unusual containers and garden pots
- Using herbs decoratively
- Container gardening organically
- Single plant pots
- Foliage is as important as flowers
- Plantings designed to attract and feed butterflies and beneficial insects
- Container gardening on a budget
- More potting soils that use don't use peat
- Federal ban on lead leaching hoses and garden pots
- More container gardens, kitchen gardens and plants in nursing homes, schools and offices
